Fort Wayne Radio Club

The Fort Wayne Radio Club Spring Banquet will be this coming Friday, May 8th, at the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church. The church is located at 4700 Vance Ave in Fort Wayne, just south of Snider High School. We will get the Banquet started at 6:30 pm EDT.

As usual, the Banquet is a carry-in. The club will provide Chicken, both grilled and fried, plus necessary placeware and utensils, lemonade and coffee. Please bring your favorite main course, side dish, or dessert to share with the group.

We hope to see you all there! We have a lot of fun things planned for the rest of 2015, so please come join us.

The May 2015 Allen County Ham News is now on line for your download and reading pleasure! Lots of great articles, pictures, and news about the 3 FW clubs! Check it out now.

Also, if you operated in the Indiana QSO Party this past Saturday, please send in your logs before the June 1st deadline and don’t forget to list Fort Wayne Radio Club as your club affiliation! Even if your score wasn’t spectacular, all of our scores may add up to another win and plaque! Thanks for supporting the club!

How can the club get the Amateur Radio Message in front of more than 100,000 people in less than two hours?? By marching in the Three Rivers Festival Parade on July 11th, that is how! Mark your calendars for this date. We will need walkers and drivers. Please plan on helping show the fun and relevance of Ham Radio to the Public!

The Fort Wayne Radio Club’s planned operation for this Saturday’s Indiana QSO party will not be taking place due to a lack of response to join us. However, we will now switch to plan “B” which goes as follows:

All hams with HF capability are requested to operate in the QSO party as much as they can, keep good logs, and submit them to the Hoosier DX club with Fort Wayne Radio Club clearly listed as their club affiliation. In that way, we will accumulate all the points earned by everyone for the club total. Hey, it worked before, in 2012, and the club ended up with a nice plaque and bragging rights because of it!!

And no excuses, you technician class operators! Techs have privileges on 10 meter SSB and 80,40 15, and 10 meter CW in the Novice sections of those bands, so don’t be left out!

With the New England QSO party, the Delaware QSO party, and the W7 QSO party on the same day, that gives 40 percent of the country doing a contest! Work toward WAS!

Also coming up this Sunday is the FWRC May Fox Hunt. It will begin at 1:30 pm at the Carrington Field parking lot, next to the old K-Mart on Coliseum Blvd. This will be our first “Ride Along” Fox Hunt, so if you are interested in Fox Hunting, this is the time to give it a try!

FWRC Members, please join us this coming Tuesday night, April 28, for the May, 2015 Fort Wayne Radio Club board of directors meeting at Good Shepherd Church, 4700 Vance Ave, in Fort Wayne.

Items up for discussion include the following:

• Indiana QSO Party
• VHF QSO Party
• ARRL Field Day
• May banquet
• Three Rivers Festival Parade participation

We hope to see you there!

Ken Ulrick, KB9YKU, became a silent key on Wednesday morning, April 15th.

KENNETH L. “KB9YKU” UHRICK, of Fort Wayne, went silent on Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at St. Joseph Hospital. Born on March 16, 1954, in Fort Wayne, he was a son of Nancy Uhrick of Fort Wayne and the late Chancy L. Uhrick. He was self employed in the HVAC industry and a member of the Fort Wayne Ham Radio Club. Also surviving are his sisters, Renita (Gary) Nahrwold of Fort Wayne and Becky (Ron) Trabel of Monroeville; mother, Nancy Uhrick of Fort Wayne; aunt, Lucille (Herman) Handy of Fort Wayne; uncle, Merl Uhrick of Columbia City; and several nieces and Nephews. He was also preceded in death by four brothers. Funeral service is 11 a.m. Monday, April 20, 2015, at C.M. Sloan & Sons Funeral Home 1327 N. Wells St., Fort Wayne, with calling from 10 to 11 a.m. www.sloanandsonsfuneralhome.com

Ken was a member of the Fort Wayne Radio Club. He will be missed by all.